Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet

This book examines the paradox of China and the United States' literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a Sinophone-Anglophone relationship rather than a China-US one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling's twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the twoduet-cum-duelis so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness.

Presents the term Sino-Anglo over China-US to articulate the connection between cultures codified by language rather than nation Pushes against existing disciplines of Area and American Studies as well as Euro-centric comparative literature to offer a thorough analysis of the tensions that simultaneously bind and separate disciplines The latest volume from one of the leading scholars of the cultural connections between the Global East and West Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora and East-West comparative studies. His books in English include: The Last Isle (2015); Alienglish (2014); Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity (2012); Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture (2011); East-West Montage (2007); The Deathly Embrace (2000); and Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (1998).

Inhalt

1. Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud.- 2. To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking.- 3. Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger's Syndrome.- 4. Turandot: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen.- 5. Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East.- 6. Asian Inscrewtability in Hollywood.- 7. Gene Luen Yang's Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town.- 8. Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen.- 9. On Sci-Fi's Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-rae Lee.- 10. Fed (up) with Gyoza and Vodka: Oldboy's Forbidden Fruit of Alterity.- 11. Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West.- 12. Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure.